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Space travel: Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo
Today Richard Branson’s space travel company “Virgin Galactic” has unveiled the design of its new space launch system.
Together with the new SpaceShipTwo the carrier aircraft called White Knight Two (WK2) was presented. Virgin Galactic says that WK2 is very close to completion and is expected to begin flight testing in the summer of 2008.
The carrier aircraft WK2 will get SpaceShipTwo up into the sky to about 60,000 feet (18,288 meters) where the two vessel then separate and SpaceShipTwo rockets into outer space.
For an expected ticket price of USD 200,000 six passengers and two crew members will then get about 4 1/2 minutes of zero-gravity time 68 miles (110 km) above us mere mortals before gliding back to Earth…
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Earthrace – the last run on its 2007 record attempt (Part 2)
Earlier this year – in May – we had a chance to participate for a few days on the attempt of “Earthrace” to break the UIM world record for circumnavigation with their bio-diesel boat.
(this post a continuation of the post Earthrace – the last run on its 2007 record attempt (Part 1) )
We have (together with another company) sponsored their last leg on their attempt to break the world record during 2007. On their “web site” there is now information that their second run to break the record will commence in March 2008 from Valencia, Spain. Good luck with that…
While a lot could be said about the 4-5 days leg from Port Suez to Valencia we participated – one thing’s for sure – it was quite an experience.
We have not taken many images after heading out into the Mediterranean, but some of the pictures from the Suez Canal came out quite well…
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Europe: Skiing season starts with record snow
After a few seasons with very little snow this skiing season in Europe is starting with new records of snow heights.
The last days of massive snow falls throughout Europe – it was even snowing on some Spanish islands normally considered by many as a warm winter refuge – have brought amounts of snow to Austrian, German, Swiss and French resorts some of them have not seen for the whole season the last years and never been seen in November before.
While the US and Canada the last years where lucky with record snow heights, in Europe many resorts experienced “droughts” to the extend that in Switzerland the last two winters fire warnings had to be issues to prevent forest fires.
Lets hope this year will be different and it looks like it might be.
And people are desperate to go…
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Design: Metro signs
Almost all major cities around the world have one thing in common – they have an underground transport system may it be called Metro, U-Bahn, Subway, Underground or something else. And most of them tell you quite a bit about the city you’re in or provide unusual views. If you for example in Prague don’t miss out on a visit of their metro – its a bit like back to the 60s or a Victor Vasarely show at a museum. And the Blue Line in Stockholm is famous for their art exhibitions aka the longest gallery of the world. Like in Stockholm many other stations are showcases for contemporary or modern design themselves.
Most of the organizations who run these underground transport systems have created a distinctive CI for their communications and as it happens to be that the majority of these systems are indeed called Metro you get the letter “M” in many variations dotted over our cities to mark station entrances…
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A380: High Resolution Interior Panoramas
Check out these outstanding high resolution panoramas of the actual interior for the new A380. The images have been created by French photographer Gilles Vidal who has also other great panos on his “web site”
First class is covered in two different versions (bed / seat) and to us – business class looks as if it has as much space as Singapore Airlines is currently offering their first class passengers on the Boeing 747 and B777-300ER with the latest upgrade
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HDR: Some impressions from Sevilla
Some HDR photographs from a recent travel to Sevilla, Spain.
The pictures were taken at the “Casa de Pilates” a fantastic example of Mudejar architecture in Spain. Build by the Marques de Tarifa during the 15th and 16th centuries its got his name from erroneously thinking it would be…
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